Lot Essay
Similar Mesopotamian glass fragments have been found in the German excavations at Samarra on the Tigris, cf. C. J. Lamm, Das Glas von Samarra Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, IV, Berlin, 1928, p. 109f. nos. 304-312, colour plate VIII; there are only two fragments from vessels, p. 108, nos. 302-303